There are a number of resources on the Web for this, but most are outdated or take the process further than I wanted. To be clear, I don't want to disable the Pi's desktop or block the user from using Chrome. I just want the Pi to default to opening Chrome, full...

Microsoft seems to be conflicting with certain popular Google Chrome features. Namely Application Shortcuts or shortcuts to sites where you can open as a window. These are convenient for Gmail and Calendar as it helps find these quickly without having to sort through...

It seems that all fresh installs of Microsoft Windows 7 fail to successfully update using the built-in Windows Update. Some manual intervention is needed. The issues are not always the same and this fix won't work for all such issues, but I have had success with this...

These days computer users have to think suspiciously to avoid infecting their computers. Especially if you use Social Media sites like Facebook. Even if you take precautions on Facebook by only "Friending" people you know personally anyone of your friends can make an...

Malware, Viruses, and Ransomware Explained There has been an alarming increase in the number of computers infected with ransomware in recent weeks and your anti-virus probably cannot protect you. Nearly all computers pick up malware as they surf the internet, install...

A long used tool for recovering client computers when they lose their passwords has been the ntpassword tool. Windows 8, including 8.1, causes a problem with the use of this tool. There is a fast boot setting that causes the partition not to mount in a Linux...

Have you ever been using the Internet and all of a sudden everything got minuscule or huge? Every page you go to is the same - either too small or too large. How did that happen? Even more importantly, how can you fix it? Most of the time a user on the computer has...

Originally posted on PCMag.com (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424175,00.asp#comment-1633904157) I have been using AVG Free for home computers for more than a decade. Reasonably good anti-virus, but as with all the others in this lot, save for MalwareBytes, not...

Okay, don't trust your phone. I just heard of a problem where a printer manufacturer (a big one) had their phone system hacked and the calls were diverted. It happened multiple times over a few days. The people who answered pretended to be support for the big printer...